Project Grant 1464677

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program provides $650,000 to Portland Community College to expand geographic information science and technology education. The award will support innovative strategies to recruit and retain students from underrepresented groups in geospatial programs through partnerships with community organizations, targeted recruitment efforts, teacher training institutes, career workshops, internships, and classroom/lab equipment...

The University of Hawaii at Manoa will develop a new technical education certificate program in geospatial agriculture technologies through a $643,865 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The three-year project will create four new courses focusing on skills for collecting and managing remote sensing data used in geospatial analysis. It will expand dual enrollment opportunities for local high school students and share curriculum resources...

Project Grant Summary: STEM Career Connections Scaling Initiative The National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings awarded $1,005,076 under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, in collaboration with the University of Colorado at Boulder and Utah State University, to scale and expand the STEM Career Connections model across three rural school districts. Initiated August 1, 2025, and...

This $349,804 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) funds geospatial technical education services at Central Wyoming College in Riverton, Wyoming. The goal is to increase recruitment, retention, and graduation rates in GIS programs to address workforce gaps for geospatial technicians in central Wyoming. Key services include expanding recruitment and retention efforts focused on underrepresented groups like American Indian students; modifying...

Award Summary Computer Learning Centers Inc. (doing business as Forward Learning) received a $464,753 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) on September 15, 2025, for the Geospatial Explorers initiative. The award funds the co-development, implementation, and evaluation of four Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology-enhanced curricular units annually across...

Federal Grant Award Summary Learning Partnership LLC received a $832,549 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), effective September 15, 2025 through August 31, 2028. The Geospatial Explorers project will develop and implement Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology-enhanced curriculum units designed to teach spatial reasoning skills across multiple high school disciplines in Puerto Rico's Mayaguez region. The project...

This $243,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) aims to establish a "Geoscience Learning Community and Network (GEONET)" to support secondary science teachers in Nebraska in integrating geoscience content into their curricula. The key objectives are to: 1) Provide professional development and training to help teachers craft new lesson plans infusing geoscience themes, 2) Facilitate incorporation of geoscience concepts aligned...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $314,804 to Montana State University to design, implement, and investigate a professional learning approach that supports rural elementary teachers and administrators in incorporating locally and culturally significant, place-based phenomena into their science teaching. The three-year project aims to build the pedagogical design capacity of third through fifth grade teachers in Maine, Montana,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) Program award of $449,918 to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska aims to develop and test the feasibility of an early childhood (EC) science professional development (PD) model to strengthen rural early childhood educators' (ECEs) science content knowledge, reflective practice, and use of science talk in their interactions with young children. The project seeks to empower ECEs to effectively integrate...

This $521,375 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) aims to increase diversity in the geosciences by supporting high school teachers in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District (PVUSD) to build their science programs. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Designing and implementing a series of experiences for high school science teachers to engage with local geoscience community partners and their...